New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-25
CALIFORNIA TOPICS.
oprsBACH AND ROSENFELDS CREDITORS
WRANGLING-VAL REAL ESTATE
fEr rELEGRAru no THE rRIBUNE.

FRANCIsCo Sept. 24.-rhe excitement over
The COLLAPSE of the wheat deal and the changes III
the Nevada Bank management has suDSded iho
creditors of Dresbach and ROSenfeld nave got hl'o
awranele over the proposed suit against inc oi'N,
McNear has seeded from the other creo''ors' auu
declares that he will bring individual suits IL he
sucs Mt all which looks as though compromise
h.1 ho.n made with him. Charles F. Reed, who
.n.o-s 90 Guarantee for Dresbach, has transferred
h;a ,,,oh of nearly ten thousand acres in YolO
County ~ the cashier of the Nevada Bank. He is
so;d 10 have aged greatly during the last few
weeks
The Mechanics Pavilion which has stood for
many years on the block opposite the new City
Hall in Larkin-st. will be torn down.
and a new building erected at Folsom and
Sixteenth sts The present site is too
valuable for the purposes of an exhibition build
Ing The land is rated at 81. 900 front foot
What was ten years ago regarded as far uptown
has now become the centre of business Building
has been active this year. For the first eight
months s12 buildings have been erected at a cost
of S4SOO,OOO The contracts for the present
month amount to 1886 900.
functions being made at the crossings of other
lines for the new Powell Street Cable Line. The
competition which this road promises to make has
stirred the Suffer Street Cable Company to extend
its cable along Polk-st. TO Paclic-ave. and thence
ont to DevisaderO-st.
The new steamer Pasadena, which started on
trial trip yesterday for Humboldt Bav, to carry
lumber TO San Pedro is the first of ocean vessels to
use petroleum for fuel. Fourteen thousand gallons
of crude oil vii be stored in tanks. The petroleum
will be fed to the furnace in combination with
steam by means of q spraying attachment. The
smoke given off is not p9rceptible. The expert
ment is watched with much interest.
Judge Maguire the head OF Henry
Georges forces this coast, started
for New-York yesterday, to assist in the
campaign. Mcguire has assiduousy cultivated the
labor element here for several years, AMI recently
founded a Land and Labor party.
Colonel Clowry. vice president of the Western
Union Telegraph Company is now here making
arrangements for additions to the comDanys sys-
TEN Business has greatly increased that for
more than year the company has been unable to
handle dispatches. New wires will be butt to Los
Angeles and San Diego, which have suffered more
severely than other points. Lines will also be
constructed to many new towns IN Northern Cal-
foTnla.
George Alfred Townsend is here a short vaca-
ton. 1t Is his first visit IN sixteen years.
Immigrants arriving in large numbers over
the Central Pacific. The trains are frequently
divided Tito two sections 10 accomplish the journey
over the SierraS One train that arrived at Sacra-
mento Yesterday brought nine immigrant cars
fonr of which went through 10 the south. Northern
California lands have been bought recently III
large quantities Tor colony purposes.
The freight business on the Central Pacific is now
almost unprecedented the washOuts on the south
ern line having concentrated most of the trafhc on
the nam line.
A peculiar question has arisen the
property of Sutton the murderer how await
ing sentence OF death III Oakland. lie owns
Lane" worth $4,000 on which there is mortgage
Of 81 500. The mOrtgag want him to sell the
land and pay them, but he refuses, telling them to
wait till he is hanged.
The China steamer which sailed this week took
to Shanghai complete set OF mining machinery
The mines are opened by Chinese capitalists but
they will be IN charge of a san Francisco man, A.
Wordsworth, who took six California miners and
by the Union Iron Works. Vice Consul Bee re-
CARDS this as the beginning OF a great industry
draw on this city for machinery ard miners
Wages are SO low hat $50 ore can be mined With
more profit than SO ore on the COnIstock. When
the superstitions of the Chinese once give wav
lie predicts a great boom III mines In Northern
China.
The Alaska Goldfish catch this year will amount
70 l.12j.0OO falling oft about 100000
cod from last year. The Alaska pack
OF salmon will be abOnt 100000 cases.
The last two steamers for China took over 10000
barrels OF -four for Yokohama and Hong Kong.
These are probably the largest cargoes of Hour that
ever left the port by steamer. he collapse OF the
wheat deal set all the flour mills running and has
led tn this boom in shipping. Flour shipments to
England, which were also suspended Will now he
resumed.
The estate of William Walker Lev, who recently
died IN Oakland, has been greatly exaggerated tie
was worth abOut $500, 600 his most valuable prop
ertv beng the new UnIou Club building at Stock
ton and Post sis At slxty he married, last March.
4 Young woman OF twenty, Miss Boswell, OF West
Troy. y. Y. She will receive $lOOOOo.
The new Hotel Del Monte at Monterey, il was an
I'D In farm 70 epn6n "
ing night but the work has been SO much delayed
bv the lack of artisans that II will be scarcely pos
sible 10 open the hotel by New Years Dav There
sso much building gong on in Southern California
tat IT is almost impossible TO get good carpenters
and plumbers
The Glenn Ranch in Colusa County will produce
more whcat this year than any other slngc ranch
in the State. The product Is 2OOO sacks or
grain,